Cost To Raise Child Exceeds $200,000

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Cost To Raise Child Exceeds $200,000

August 13, 2009 | ISSUE 45•33

According to a report from the United States Department of Agriculture, it will cost a total of $221,190 to raise a child born in 2008. What do you think?

Yeah, sure, but only if you plan on being a good parent."

Dan Triphan
Dock Hand
Sixty thousand of that alone is for boxed juice."

Jim Quansah
Fan Balancer
I've figured out it’s much more economical to shuffle them off to some adoptive family and then reenter their lives a few years before I’ll need home care."

Susie Wise
Radiation Monitor

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